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An Ardmore 15 YO for the Teacher's Director (45.7%) has been bottled a few decades ago, since then, there has been a 12 YO 43% and a 21 YO 43% were released in 1998 for the centenary of the distillery. More recently, a 25 YO was released and a 30 YO for the US market.

William Teacher and Sons were looking for building a distillery to provide malt for their Teacher’s Highland Cream blended whisky. Land was acquired in 1895 at Kennethmont and building of the distillery started in 1897. Adam Teacher, the remaining son of the founder of William Teacher’s & Sons died the same year as the construction of the distillery was started (1898). Work was completed the next year, in 1899, with the production starting in spring. The name of the distillery, Ardmore, was influence by Ardmore Point, a spit of land, close to village Rhu, home of the Teacher’s family.

William Teacher and Sons was incorporated as a limited company in 1923.

In 1927, the floor maltings were expanded.
During WWII, the distillery is used by the army for food storage, including a butchery.

In order to increase the output, an extension and modification program was initiated in 1953 with the installation of 4 Saladin boxes and additional bins.The extension was completed in 1955 with the addition of 2 new stills (total 4), enabling to increase the output of 4x compared to 1898. A dried-soluble plant was opened in 1962 (evaporating and drying plant). A biological purification plant is installed in 1967.

Efficiency was further increased in 1969 when the old mash tun was replaced, the number of washbacks increase from 4 to 6, then to 8 and finally to 10. Worms tubs were replaced by condensers. The capacity of the distillery is further expanded in 1974 with the number of stills expended from 4 to 8, 4 additional washbacks, new malt stores, wash and feints chargers, etc. to eventually double the production capacity to 1.5 mio gallons (5.2 mio LPA).
In 1976, Teachers became part of the Allied Breweries and the distillery operated as a subsidiary of Teacher (Distillers) Ltd.

The distillery traditional stills were only converted to indirect firing, by steam heated coils and pans, rather than directly by coal, until April 2001.Its own Saladin maltings operated until 1975. Afterwards, the malted barley was sourced from the Moray firth Maltings (now Bairds Maltings), using the same peat source as previously (New Pitsiglo near St Fergus). The malt is medium peated (12-14 ppm) , but once a year, a non-peated malt called Ardlair is produced. The whisky was only occasionally bottled a single malt until 2007, when the Ardmore traditional cask was released two years after the purchase of Allied Domecq by Beam Global. The record of production is reached in 2008 with 5,2 mio LPA.
In 2011, the re-reroofing of the warehouses is initiated (cost of the program: 1mio £).